Towards the Mountaintop: Commemorating Dr. King

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“Towards the Mountaintop: Commemorating Dr. King” is a live stage event to honor the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s passing and the 55th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Actors and activists will re-enact Dr. King and other real life equal rights activists, with musicians providing Negro Spirituals and gospel music plus anti-Vietnam War rock songs. The show is taking place at the end of the Left Coast Forum (www.leftcoastforum.org/). On a schedule permitting basis, re-enactors for the Rev. King Commemoration include:

MICHAEL BECKWITH as JESUS OF NAZARETH

BRENDA LEE EAGER as MAHALIA JACKSON, ARETHA FRANKLIN, ROSA PARKS

IAN RUSKIN as THOMAS PAINE

EVELIA JONES as SALLY HEMINGS

GREG PALAST as HENRY DAVID THOREAU

K.B. SOLOMON as PAUL ROBESON

SUZANNE NICHOLS asSOJOURNER TRUTH, HARRIET TUBMAN, FANNIE LOU HAMER

E. MILTON WHEELER as FREDERICK DOUGLASS:

SUZANNE NICHOLS as SOJOURNER TRUTH,

BEN GUILLORY as THADDEUS STEVENS, W.E.B. DU BOIS

MELANIE CRUZ as MARY WHITE OVINGTON

MONA SHAIKH as SUSAN B. ANTHONY

SHARON KYLE as IDA B. WELLS

HARVEY WASSERMAN as EUGENE DEBS

ROBERT FITRAKIS as MICHAEL HARRINGTON

JENN BOBIWASH as CRAZY HORSE

PARKING: Free at last! Comp parking in garage located across the street from LATTC.